| You are cordially invited to attend the 25th Anniversary of the MIT
Experimental Music Studio. Your response is kindly requested.
DIGITAL REWIND: Symposium and Concert to celebrate 25 years of computer
music innovation at MIT
When:
Friday, May 21, 1999
Symposium 10am - 5pm EST
Dinner 5:30 - 7:30pm EST
Concert 8-10pm EST
Where:
Symposium - Barthos Theater, Media Laboratory
Dinner - Media Laboratory
Concert - Kresge Auditorium
For more information, to receive an invitation by mail or to
RSVP please contact:
Connie Van Rheenen
email: emsrsvp@media.mit.edu
phone: 617. 253. 2727
http://www.media.mit.edu/EMS
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Symposium
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On Friday, May 21, 1999 the Media Laboratory will host a day
long event to honor the contributions of the composers and music researchers
associated with the renowned Experimental Music Studio (EMS) at MIT. The
symposium will feature talks by notable figures from music and technology
including: Robert Moog (Big Briar, Inc.), Max Mathews (Interval
Corporation), Ray Stata (Founder and Chairman of Analog Devices), Miller
Puckette (Professor of Music at UCSD). The talks will range from early
contributions of the EMS to digital audio synthesis technology to the most
recent innovations from the Media Lab, including a major part of the new
MPEG-4 audio standard. EMS founder Professor Barry Vercoe now leads the
Machine Listening Group at the Media Lab where he directs research in audio
compression, synthetic listeners and performers, singing voice
parameterization and re-synthesis, auditory object recognition, spatial
audio, music-analysis systems and applications of information theory to
perception.
The EMS, founded by Professor Barry Vercoe in 1973, was one of the great
innovating studios in the field. It was responsible for developing or
significantly improving technologies such as real-time digital synthesis,
live keyboard input, graphical score editing, graphical patching languages,
synchronization between natural and synthetic sound in composition, and
advanced music languages. In 1985, the EMS was integrated into the new MIT
Media Laboratory, to carry on its work in a new, cross-disciplinary context
of multimedia research.
Professor Barry L. Vercoe is one of the great developers and popularizers
of computer-music technology. He is best known as the inventor of the
Music-360 (Vercoe, 1973) Music-11 (Vercoe, 1978), and Csound (Vercoe, 1996)
languages for digital music synthesis, which have been used by thousands of
composers around the world. He is a respected composer, teacher, and
software developer, and a broad thinker. His own publications span many
fields of research, from music theory (Vercoe, 1968) to signal processing
(Vercoe, 1982) to music perception (Vercoe 1997), to audio coding(Vercoe et
al., 1998), His students from the EMS and the Media Lab have seeded the
academic and industrial worlds of computer music and music technology.
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Concert
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A public concert at Kresge Auditorium (48 Massachusetts Avenue,
Cambridge) will conclude the symposium. The evening's performances will
include two world premiere pieces, a reworking of "At LastÂ…Free" for Max
Mathews' Radio Baton by Richard Boulanger and an interactive rendition
of "Synapse" for viola and computer by Barry Vercoe.
The EMS contributed several seminal compositions to the genre of Computer
Music, some of which will be performed at the May 21 concert. The concert
will include works by internationally recognized composers who worked at the
EMS: William Albright, Richard Boulanger, MIT Professor Peter Child, James
Dashow, Mario Davidovsky, MIT Associate Professor Tod Machover, Jean Claude
Risset, and MIT Professor Barry Vercoe. The performance will also feature
some of the most celebrated musicians in experimental music including
members of the Boston-based Collage New Music, MIT Professor Marcus Thompson
(viola), David Horne (piano), Curtis Macomber (violin). Examples of the
technology developed at the EMS and the Media Lab will be on exhibit in
Kresge's lobby before the performance.
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